Need that extra motivation to get in shape? A fitness wristband due out in 2015 will zap you if you miss a workout. Pavlok’s bracelet also has other kinds of negative reinforcement to get you off your duff, but it’s the electric shock that’s getting the buzz. “Sometimes crazy works,” Pavlok CEO Maneesh Sethi says in a promotional video. For …

There’s liposuction for dogs now, though it’s not for their waistline as much as their health. According to Fox 8 Cleveland, a veterinarian’s office in North Ridgeville, Ohio is leading the charge in removing lipomas, fatty masses that often develop in older dogs, with small incisions. In the past, pups with lipomas would undergo heavy surgery resulting in nearly 30 …

Personal data including text messages, contact lists and photos can be extracted from iPhones through previously unpublicized techniques by Apple Inc employees, the company acknowledged this week. The same techniques to circumvent backup encryption could be used by law enforcement or others with access to the “trusted” computers to which the devices have been connected, according to the security expert …

President Barack Obama’s famous fist bumps may have health benefits as well as a cool factor, because a new study shows that greeting someone with your knuckles is much more hygienic than shaking their hand. Dr. Dave Whitworth, of Aberystwyth University in Wales, tested the germ-carrying potential of various greetings by high-fiving, fist-bumping, and shaking hands with with a PhD …

A waterway in eastern China has mysteriously turned a blood red color. Residents in Zhejiang province said the river looked normal at 5 a.m. Beijing time on Thursday morning. Within an hour, the entire river turned crimson. Residents also said a strange smell wafted through the air. “The really weird thing is that we have been able to catch fish …

<div class=”video-container”></div> You might think you love dinosaur poop, but there’s nobody more excited about jurassic fecal matter than auctioneer I.M. Chait. OK, the company might just be excited that they have six fossilized specimens that will go for $4,000-to-10,000 when they hit the auction block July 26, but just look at the descriptions they gave us for these photos. …

A Romanian princess and her husband pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one charge of running an illegal gambling operation for their involvement in a cockfighting ring in rural Oregon. Irina Walker, 61, daughter of exiled former Romanian King Michael, and her husband John Walker, 68, appeared in federal court in Portland in connection with cockfights they held in Irrigon, Oregon, …